Bitmain, the biggest company in bitcoin mining, has filed for its IPO in Hong Kong. As part of the approval process, the company submitted a prospectus to the Hong Kong stock exchange at the end of August 2018. The prospectus was published on September 26, 2018.Most of the document’s financial data is old information, except for that of Q2 of 2018. When Bitmain raised $400 million in a pre-IPO round last month, leaked financial documents provided most of the information we see in the prospectus now. The new prospectus includes three months beyond what was previously known. And that new information tells a bigger story.  According to the new prospectus, Bitmain posted $701 million in net profit in 2017. Yet, for the first half of 2018, Bitmain claims a gross profit of $743 million, despite a massive slump in crypto markets. This is odd because one would expect any company in the cryptocurrency business to have felt the pinch from this decline. In fact, Bitmain has. The leaked pre-IPO presentations showed that Bitmain made a $1,137 million net profit in Q1. This means Bitmain actually lost $400 million in Q2. About BitmainMost of the Beijing-based firm’s business comes from making ASIC mining rigs used to mine bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. According to its IPO prospectus, 90 percent of the company’s profits came from miners in 2017. And in the first six months of 2018, miners accounted for 94 percen... For Further Information Click on Below Button